Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Rain of Gold's Prison Play: Identity Making and Maneuvering, William Henry Guajardo
Stagnant Supers: Amplifying the Superhero Genre Through Novelistic Maturity, Ariel Elizabeth Hubbard
A Case Study: Incorporating Young Adult Literature into General Education To Improve Intellectual and Emotional Intelligence, Katherine Ann Irion
New Perspectives on Paul and Marx: William Blake's <">The Chimney Sweeper<"> in <<>i>Songs of Innocence and Experience<<>/i>, Lianna Jean Manibog
Mark Twain and Eliza R. Snow: The Innocents Abroad, Kathryn Marie Meeks
Machismo, Carnival, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Writings of Junot D<Ã>az, Joshua Evans Price
Where Have All The Rebels Gone? Ideology and Conformity in Young Adult Dystopian Literature, Meghan I. Rimmasch
"What do the divils find to laugh about" in Melville's The Confidence-Man, Truedson J. Sandberg
"Laughter Is Part of My War Effort": The Harmonizing and Humanizing Influences of Laughter in Andrea Levy's Small Island, Jacob Holt Shumway
Meteorological Time in Dorothy Wordsworth's Rydal Journal, Amanda Ann Smith
The Wicked Widow: Reading Jane Austen<&trade>s Lady Susan as a Restoration Rake, Amanda Teerlink
An Annunciation for a Secular Age: The Struggle for Faith in Mary Szybist's Incarnadine, Devin Morgan Theurer
Schools of Identity: Rhetorical Experience in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Rachel Elizabeth Winkel
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Fox and the Goose: The Pamphlet Wars and Volpone's Animal Metaphors, Julie Anne Anderson
The Fox and the Goose: The Pamphlet Wars and Volpone's Animal Metaphors, Julie Anne Anderson
Writing in Other People's Worlds: Two Students Repurposing Extracurricular Fan Fiction Writing to Fulfill Curricular Assignments, Alison Carol Blackburn
"This, too, was myself": Empathic Unsettlement and the Victim/Perpetrator Binary in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Brittany Bruner
Obliterating Middle-Class Culpability: Sarah Grand's New Woman Short Fiction in George Bentleys Temple Bar, Nicole Perry Clawson
The Living River: Ritual and Reconciliation in The Famished Road, Marissa Deane Compton
The Living River: Ritual and Reconciliation in The Famished Road, Marissa Deane Compton
"Goin' to Hell in a Handbasket": The Yeatsian Apocalypse and No Country for Old Men, Connor Race Davis
Public Records, Private Texts: Richard Carlile's Publication of The Age of Reason and the Birth of Public Domain, Andrew S. Doub
"I wondered at her silence": Jane Eyre's Wrestle with the Bystander's Dilemma, Rose Evelle Hadden
"I wondered at her silence": Jane Eyre's Wrestle with the Bystander's Dilemma, Rose Evelle Hadden
Jittery Gauges: Combating the Polarizing Effect of Political Data Visualizations Through Uncertainty, Bethany Blaire Hardy
"What More Could I Have Done?" A Graduate Student's Experience Teaching Writing About Writing, Lena May Harper
"What More Could I Have Done?" A Graduate Student's Experience Teaching Writing About Writing, Lena May Harper
Invisible Voices: Revising Feminist Approaches to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Including the Narrative of Mental Illness, Rebekah Michele Hood
Accommodation, Decorum, and Disputatio: Matteo Ricci's The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven as a Renaissance Humanist Disputation, Roberto Sebastian Leon
Hamilton: Publics Theory, the Rhetorical Impact of Theater and Reimagining the American Founding, Anna Sanford Low
Adapting Dracula: The Afterlives of Stoker's Memes in Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1979), Ian Duncan McArthur
"A poem containing history": Pound as a Poet of Deep Time, Newell Scott Porter
Misrepresenting the Shoah in American Film, Madeleine Erica Read
Misrepresenting the Shoah in American Film, Madeleine Erica Read
Sentence-Level Construction Methods: Skills Taught Are Skills Used, Susan Allsop Shelton
"History Real or Feigned": Tolkien, Scott, and Poetry's Place in Fashioning History, Kaleigh Jean Spooner
Testing the Test: Expanding the Dialogue on Workplace Writing Assessment, Lindsay Elizabeth Tanner
"To You I Give Myself, for I Am Yours": Editorial Giving and Taking in Shakespeare's As You Like It, Jennifer Jean Thorup
"To You I Give Myself, for I Am Yours": Editorial Giving and Taking in Shakespeare's As You Like It, Jennifer Jean Thorup
Posthuman Maturation in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Illuminae: Re-Conceptualizing the Human for Adolescence and Artificial Intelligence, Gregory Alaric Williams
How President Barack Obama Reshaped the Rhetorical Presidency by Slow Jamming the News, Preston Haycock Wittwer
How President Barack Obama Reshaped the Rhetorical Presidency by Slow Jamming the News, Preston Haycock Wittwer
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Out of the Best Books: Mormon Assimilation and Exceptionalism Through Secular Reading, Lauren Ann Fields
From The Office to the Classroom: Computer Simulations and Student Engagement in Advanced Composition, Lauren Fine
The Archon(s) of Wildfell Hall: Memory and the Frame Narrative in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Alyson June Fullmer
How Do Law Students Develop Writing Expertise During Summer Internships? An Interview-Based Study, Jonathan Francisco Garcia
The Ontology of Immanence: Arriving at Being in Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain, Rachel R. Gilman
Hope for Susan: Moral Imagination in The Chronicles of Narnia, Emily Rose Kempton
"Twenty or Thirty or Forty Years Ago": Time, Posthistory, and the Hyper-Present in Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy, Benjamin Moroni Killgore
Manfred, Don Juan, and the Romantic Tragedy of the Subject, Trenton Robert Leinenbach
Poe's Entangled Fiction: Quantum Field Theory in "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", Jean A. Little
“There is no God and we are his prophets”: The Visionary Potential of Memory and Nostalgia in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and The Road, Marie Reine Pugh
Embracing Multiplicity: Autobiographical Personae in Ruth Hall, Gina Marie Schneck
From Epistolary Form to Embedded Narratological Device: Embedded Epistles in Austen and Scott, Tonja S. Vincent
Shakespeare, Orson Welles, and the Hermeneutics of the Archive, Benjamin Lynn Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
“I take--No less than Skies”: Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century Meteorology, Kjerstin Evans Ballard
Shakespeare's Art and Artifice: Passing for Real in As You Like It, Kristen Nicole Cardon
Burke's Poetic Metaphor and Obama as Poet, Devon S. Cook
Ecological Humanist Mosaics: Dislocations and Relocations of the Autobiographical Self in Terry Tempest Williams's Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Sharman Tullis Gill
Visions of the Past: Engagement and Avoidance Through Nostalgia in My Ántonia, Maren Mazzeo
Sacred Things, Sacred Bodies: The Ethics of Materiality and Female Spirituality in Purple Hibiscus, Kylie McQuarrie
Influenza, Heritage, and Magical Realism in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories, Katherine Snow Nelson
We Heard Our Voices with the Hyenas and Other Stories: The Community of Strangers, Rebekah Washburn Olson
"Peculiar Insanity": Hereditary Sympathy and the Nationalist Enterprise in Twain's The American Claiment, Jared M. Pence
What a Dream Was Here: An Ontological Approach to Love and Magic in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Brittany May Rebarchik
Evidences of Critical Thinking in the Writing of First-Year College Students, Shannon Bryn Soper
“Healing a Hurting Heart”: FEMRITE's Use of Narrative and Community as Catalysts for Traumatic Healing, Candice Taylor Stratford
"[B]reaking down the walls, and crying to the mountains"--Isaiah 22:5: Dystopia and Ethics of The Catcher in the Rye, Megan Marie Toone
Companionate and Pedagogic Marriage Models in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Emma, Kandace Hansen Wheelwright
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Challenge of Happily Ever After: How Once Upon a Time Fanfic Fairy Tales Model Strategies for Ordinary Life Challenges, Christa M. Baxter
With So Little Time, Where Do We Start? Targeted Teaching Through Analyzing Error Egregiousness and Error Frequency, Katie Fredrickson
Inheriting the Library: The Archon and the Archive in George MacDonald's Lilith, Lauran Ray Fuller
Reading between the Bloodied Lines and Bodies: Dissecting Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Hillary Gamblin
A Lesson in Rhetoric: Finding God Through Language in “Batter my heart”, Marc Daniel Giullian
Zadie Smith's NW and the Edwardian Roots of the Contemporary Cosmopolitan Ethic, Laura Domenica Marostica
Trauma of a Perpetrator: Reimagining Perpetrators in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, Marinda Quist
Perilous Power: Chastity as Political Power in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, Kelsey Brooke Smith
Blogs, Books, & Breadcrumbs: A Case Study of Transmedial Fairy Tales, Kristy Gilbert Stewart
"Making Ourselves Over in the Image of the Imagery": Overcoming Alienation Through Poetic Expressions of Experience, Jacqueline Aquino Teusch
Discovering the "God Within": The Experience and Manifestation of Emerson's Evolving Philosophy of Intuition, Anne Tiffany Turner
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life: William Knight's Life of William Wordsworth and the Invention of "Home at Grasmere", Patria Isabel Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Towards a Consummated Life: Kenneth Burke's Concept of Consummation as Critical Conversation and Catharsis, Cherise Marie Bacalski
Kenneth Burke as Educator: What His Theories of Aesthetic Form and (Non-Symbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action Suggest for Teachers in the Literature Classroom, Tara Brock Boyce
Material Geography, Mountains, and A-Nationalism in Thurman's The Blacker the Berry, Stephanie Jean Burns
Rae, Baby, Whitney Marissa Call
Looking Outside the Canon: Owen Vincent Dodson'sBoy at the Window, Sarah Anne Campbell
Mommy Blogs and Rhetoric: Reading Experiences That Shape Maternal Identities, Brighton Joan Capua
"Sealing Their Two Fates with a Fracture": Ted Hughes's "Pyramus and Thisbe" as an Emblem of the Paradox of Translation, Carolyn Carter
Nailing Down Truths: Evental Historiography in Fors Clavigera, Sari Lynn Carter
70's "Miscegenation" and Blaxploitation: Fran Ross's Interracial Oreo, and the Super Bad Blaxploitation Hero, Corrine Esther Collins
Reconceiving a Necessary Evil: Teaching a Transferable FYC Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn
From Plato to iPads: Dialogical Opportunities in Twenty-First Century Secondary English Classrooms, Emily Ensign
Nostalgia: Movement and Stasis in Contemporary American Poetry, Rebecca Cecilia Hay
Learning to "Teacher Think": Using English Education as a Model for Writing Teacher Preparation in the Composition Practicum, Angela Celestine Lankford
Windows and Mirrors: Selecting Multiethnic Young Adult Fiction to Increase Adolescent Engagement with Academic and Cultural Literacy, Caryn Joan Lefaga Lesuma
A "Time-Conscious" Christmas Carol, Jack Lundquist
Red by Association: New Negro Communism and Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry, Maria Elise Milligan
Baumrind's Authoritative Parenting Style: A Model for Creating Autonomous Writers, Rachel Page Payne